Hi Nikolaus,
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 21:57 +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am happy to announce that almost all of the produced GTA04EA boards
> have passed the tests and are ready to ship on Monday!
Let me be the first to say: Congrats!
>> They already passed the automatic tests (using the GTA04 Tester
> system) some days ago, which did show that CPU, GPS, WLAN,
> Bluetooth, I2C sensors work and the UMTS module responds on USB.
>> Each board will have a test report like this:
>>>>> One final test made us quite some headaches: is the board really
> a Telephone?
>> After successfully initiating voice calls on the first 3 boards, the
> next 4 boards did not work. And, the originally tested for good
> boards didn't pass the test again. So we did fear that our software
> damages the modules. Or that we have a loose connection, opening
> with increasing temperatures.
>> After two long days of trying everything (even soldering small
> wires to the PCM voice interface to inspect the signals) it turned
> out that we better should not send one specific AT command to
> the module, if the call is already established. It will simply mute
> the PCM voice channel within the module but will not interrupt
> the line...
>> Now everything appears to work well enough that we
> don't expect that you have to send the unit back on the next day :)
While I am not an EA, I appreciate this effort to get it bug-free. The
GTA02 problems I'd rather not repeat :).
>> Here they are:
>>> Thanks again for your patience and encouragement! Without
> knowing that you are out there eagerly waiting for a new
> powerful and state of the art motherboard for the GTA02
> system, it would have been much easier to give up and buy
> some <insert brand> and try to port Linux onto it. And have in
> approx. 2 years just 95% working :)
>> But now we know all details of the design and there will be
> plenty of documentation of every GPIO line.
>> So what will come after we have shipped the EA boards?
>> We will start to make a new GTA04A4 layout to fix the hardware
> bugs, without having to cut traces and add small wires which is
> very expensive in production. And, we will ask for quotations
> for PCBs, components, production etc. As soon as we have that,
> we can finally annouce price and timing and start to accept
> preorders for the next batch.
Looking forward to ordering one soon!
Benedikt
>> Nikolaus Schaller
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